Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-02
Washington NEWS NOTES.

| wish of the President and OF members il
both Houses of Congress to avoid the neces
sity for calling q session of the two Houses
for special business of the Senate the opin
ion is entertained that matters in respec
to appropriation bills are rapidly driftin,
into a proposition, if indeed they have mo-
already reached it, which makes q callet
session inevitable.
Allison says neither the Senate or itl
COMMITTEES On Appropriation is in any way
responsible, while q member Of the Senat.
Appropriation COMMITTEES declares his be
lief that it will be impossible during the re
mainder of the days of the session to fin
nish the Appropriation bills.
The matter OF appointments and confir
nations contributes to theinfluences which
may produce q called session. Opinions
respecting the Presidents power to appoint
Interstate Commerce Commissioners dur
ing tho recess Of the Senate are widely va
RANT. Edmunds Pugh, Harris and other
Senator'S OF prominence, declare, without
qualification, that the President has no
shadow of constitutional or legal right to
fill the Office recently created when the Sen
ate is not in session, to give it's advice and
consent, and that his power in the matter
is limited to filling vacancies temporarily,
which may happen during recess. It is
uelu ULldU 6uOulU uo OO eO Uucy COuIO uOU
qualify. draw their salaries, or legally per-
form any duties.
Combinations: Registers of Land Offices:
Henry Rinehart, Oregon; LeBrande, Ore:
gon; Indian Agents: J. M. Needham, Lemhi
Agency, Idaho; G. B. Buzey, of Illinois, C..
Fields, of Maryland, Fort Belknap, Mon
tana; j. II. Wright, Missouri, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Post
masters: P. Talent, Butte City, Montana.
Henry Hayes, (white). testified before the
Texas Investigation Committee that all the
memorialists we're in bad standing. Some
of them had declared to him personally
their intention of removing from the county
for business reasons long before the date of
their alleged forcible exile. Other witnesses
testified to the good character of the peo
pie OF Brennan in general, and the bad
standing of the memorialists. Adjourned
until Monday.
The bill to prevent the employment of
convict and alien labor upon public works
and of convict labor in the preparation of
materials for public works passed by the
Senate to-day, has passed the HOUSE and
now goes to the President.
The House Arbitration bill passed by the
Senate to-day is the bill introduced by Re-
preventative O'Neill, of Missouri. It was
somewhat amended by the House before it
was passed by that body, but was
amended by the Senate. It now only re-
quires the signature of the President to
make it a law.
James Monroe Trotter, is a coIored citi-
zen of Massachusetts,, 4S years OF age. His
early life was spent in the State OF Ohio
where he began his education in the public
schools of that State. For the past 35
hn hoo 1o6 in, oh, tfc
where prior to the war he was teacher.
Soon after the breaking out Of the rebellion
he enlisted az q private in the Fifty-ffth
Massachusetts Regiment of colored troops
and was promoted for acts OF bravery on
the battle field until he became lieuten-
ant. Upon his return to civil life he was
appointed and filled for eighteen years the
position of assistant superintendent of the
letter department. IN I1Ie boston
post office. From this position he was re-
tired in 1884, on account, it is said, OF his
IN politics and his avowed
purpose OF supporting President Cleve-
land.
A Decision by Judge Gresham.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 2S.-
Judge Gresham decided the famous Perkins
Contempt Case this morning. Perkins was
as q witness in the proceedings
before Commissioner Van Bum against
several Democratic politicians charged with
forgery of election returns list last fall, and
refused to testify on the grounds that the
had no jurisdiction, and was
adjudged in contempt. Proceedings were
instituted before the commissioner under a
decision of Judge Blodgett, OF Chicago, in
the Mackin case, that because a Congress-
man has been voted for at the same elec-
tion, f,deral court has Jurisdiction,
although the result of the vote for county
officers was involved in the forgery. Judge
Woods District Court on Appeals took the
same grounds that Blodgett had in the
opinion. Judge Gresham says such an
assumption has neither good sense nor
good law, and that as the vote of Congress-
man was not in question at all, the COM
missioner had no jurisdictioe, and Perkins
is discharged. The Committee of 100 will
transfer the case to the State Court and
continue the prosecution.
German Notes.
BERLIN, February 2S.-The Nachrichten
says: The situation has not yet lost it's
character, and compels Ger